Nobel peace prize laureate Shirin Ebadi apologized to the Syrian people for the Iranian involvement in the war in their country. Ebadi, a lawyer and human rights activist, said in an interview with Orient TV on January 9 that the Iranian regime violates the rights of racial and ethnic minorities in Iran, including the Arabs and the Sunnis. There is not a single Sunni mosque in Tehran, she said. Ebadi added that she believed that the Arab Spring had not been defeated and would eventually prevail and overthrow the dictatorships